ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area Safer terminals on spec grade duplex?

with a duplex, you would have 4 holes on the neutral, and another 4 holes on the hots. I could connect 4 neutrals and 4 hots, and if I also put wires directly under the screwheads, a total of 6 neutrals and 6 hots. I strongly suspect that this isn't code...

Single and duplex receptacles rated 15 A and 20 A that are provided with more than one set of terminals for the connection of line and neutral conductors may be used to feed a single set of branch circuit conductors connected to other receptacles on a multi-outlet branch circuit. These devices have not been tested for tapping off more than one circuit from the receptacle by utilizing both the side-wiring and back-wiring terminals on an outlet.